Hydnacese 



On trunks of oak, beech, etc. July to October. Hydnum. 



Spores subglobose, 5-6|U. diameter Massec; white, plain, 5x6/* W.G.S. 



Alabama, Miss K. Skehan; Pennsylvania, Mcllvaine; Massachusetts, 

 Sprague; New York, Peck, Rep. 22. 



Eaten in Germany and France. Cooke. 



A dead beech trunk at Eagle's Mere, Pa., in August, 1898, bore at 

 least fifty pounds of it. It draped one side of the tree from root to top 

 with yellowish, pendulous tufts, with spines up to 3 in. long, which 

 waved in the wind. The spines and tender parts were stewed, and en- 

 joyed by many. It shrinks very much in drying, becoming sour. 



A'PUS. Gr. without ; a foot. 

 (Stemless, dimidiate, margin distinct.) 



H. Septentriona'le Fr. Northern. Fleshy-fibrous, becoming pale, 

 imbricated. Pile! not numerous, growing one above the other, plane, 

 behind thick, consolidated, margin straight, whole. Spines very 

 crowded, slender, equal. 



The largest known Hydnum. 



Received from E. B. Sterling, Trenton, N. J., September, 1897. 

 The specimens formed part of a dense fasciculate mass weighing over 

 20 pounds, growing on a beech stump. Edges of the young plant are 

 edible, but have little taste. 



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